A war is currently brewing online between the fans of music superstars, Burna Boy and Wizkid. On Tuesday morning, Afro-fusion superstar, Damini Ogulu popularly known as Burna Boy knocked the fans of Afrobeats superstar singer/songwriter, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun “Wizkid” labelling them “delusional’. Burna Boy dragged Wizkid’s fans (Wizkid FC) after a cross-section of his fans […]
THE Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) and the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) have instituted a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) over the arbitrary use of the NBC Act and broadcasting code to threaten, revoke and shut down 53 broadcast stations in the country for failing to renew […]
MINISTER of State for Labour and Employment, Mr. Festus Keyamo SAN has lamented the growing lack of appreciation of the best efforts of the President Muhammadu Buhari -led All Progressives Congress APC administration at repositioning the country, saying what afflicts the party is not non-performance but lack of salesmen. According to him, the APC has […]
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Abuja branch, has said contrary to the claim by the federal government, the union did not receive N100 billion from the federal government. The union blamed the government for its ongoing strike, saying it frustrated all genuine efforts it had made to end the industrial action. […]
PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is meeting with Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state in London. A source privy to the meeting confirmed to Vanguard that Tinubu is meeting Wike alongside Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue state and Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State. The governors on the platform […]
THE Minister of State for Health, Mr. Joseph Ekumankama has called for collective efforts from private organisations, donor agencies and individuals to address the challenges stunting healthcare delivery. Speaking in Lagos during the commissioning of projects at the Federal Medical Centre, FMC Ebute-Metta, Ekumankama said that most challenges responsible for brain drain in the country […]
THE Kano Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC have arrested one Gazali Ado , a 35-year-old impersonator who posed as an operative of the EFCC on the Google map. He was arrested following a petition by one Kenneth Nwarize who alleged that the suspect defrauded him of the sum of N150,000 […]
THE Director, Media and Publicity of the Tinubu Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga has criticised Nigerians who attacked the vice-presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Kashim Shettima’s outfit at the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) Annual General Conference. Recall that Shettima was dragged by a section of Nigerian tweeps for wearing an oversized […]
THE House of Representatives Committee on National Security and Intelligence, on Tuesday began investigation into the attack at the Kuje Correctional Centre that led to the escape of 64 inmates. The committee’s chairman, Mr. Sha’aban Saraba, on Tuesday, in Abuja, said the House resolution to investigate the attack was sequel to a motion moved at […]
A Chief Magistrate Court presided over by Mrs Kadoon Gbasha in Makurdi the Benue State capital, has convicted a 30-year-old man, Mister Ternenge Peter living within the Wurukum axis Makurdi to one month community service for destroying a billboard belonging to the Peoples Democratic Party, mounted at Wurukum roundabout. The trial Magistrate Mrs Gbasha sentenced […]